biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply, having bound Isaac to an altar, he is stopped by...
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Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son...
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Abraham and Isaac may refer to: Binding of Isaac, a story in the Abrahamic religions in which God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac The Brome...
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Christianity, and Islam. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of...
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Christianity, Islam maintains that Isaac was the son of the patriarch and prophet Abraham from his wife Sarah. Muslims hold Isaac in deep veneration because they...
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Abraham Isaac Kook (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language...
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The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac (also known as The Brome “Abraham and Isaac”, The Brome Abraham, and The Sacrifice of Isaac) is a fifteenth-century...
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Sarah (redirect from Hagar and Ishmael)
pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September...
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Abraham ben Isaac or Avraham Ben Yitzhak (Hebrew: אברהם בן יצחק) may refer to: Abraham ben Isaac Bedersi (13th century), Provençal Jewish poet Abraham...
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Knight of faith (category Religious belief and doctrine)
Silentio believes that Abraham is one such knight of faith. In the Book of Genesis, God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham dearly loved his son...
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Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through...
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Abraham and Isaac, also known as the Sacrifice of Isaac (Italian: Sacrificio di Isacco), is an oil painting by the Venetian painter Titian. It was made...
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Isaac ben Abraham may refer to: Isaac, patriarch in the Bible and son of Abraham Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre (Isaac ha Bahur, or "RIBa"), 12th/13th-century...
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practice; in his view Abraham and Isaac were traveling in foreign territory without any daughters to offer the local ruler and attempted to create similar...
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His Only Son (category Cultural depictions of Isaac)
to Isaac and Isaac's birth, Abraham reveals to Isaac that Isaac is the sacrifice. Isaac reluctantly complies with Abraham, and Abraham binds Isaac. As...
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known in the Hebrew Bible as Terah. Abraham had two children, Ishmael and Isaac, who both later became prophets. Abraham's nephew is said to have been the...
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Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51, is a composition for tenor, alto and piano by Benjamin Britten, part of his series of five Canticles. Commissioned...
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angel. The faces of Abraham and Isaac are in shadow, but show great emotion. The gestures of the hands are acutely eloquent, and the angel's hand is resting...
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Abraham ben Isaac of Granada also Abraham Merimon was a Kabbalist of the thirteenth century. Abraham wrote: Sefer ha-Berit: A work on the Kabbala.This...
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Abraham and Isaac is a sacred ballad for baritone and orchestra composed in 1962–63 by Igor Stravinsky. When the Israel Festival Committee asked Stravinsky...
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Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן יִצְחָק מִנַרְבּוֹנָה)(c. 1080-85 – 1158) was a Provençal rabbi, also known as Raavad II, and...
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Jehovah-jireh (category Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible)
was the location of the binding of Isaac, where Yahweh told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham named the place after God provided...
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Andrea del Sarto Abraham and Isaac (Titian), a painting of c. 1543–1544 by Titian, also called the Sacrifice of Isaac Sacrifice of Isaac (Caravaggio), two...
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Abraham Isaac (1828 1906) was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth...
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Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Aboab (Hebrew: רבי יצחק בן אברהם אבוהב; fl. 1300) also known by his magnum opus, Menorat ha-Maor, was an early 14th century Spanish...
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child born to John and Rebekah Lincoln, who had nine children in all: Abraham born 1744, twins Hannah and Lydia born 1748, Isaac born 1750, Jacob born...
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Jacob in Islam (section Jacob and his sons)
ʔibn ʔisħaːq ʔibn ʔibraːhiːm ʔibn ʔaːzar], transl. Jacob, son of Isaac, the son of Abraham), later given the name Israil (إِسْرَآءِیْل, transl. 'Israel')...
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wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis, in connection with both Abraham and Isaac. King Abimelech of Gerar also appears in an extra-biblical tradition...
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characterize this view as an "erroneous and totally unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad)...
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Rebecca (category Isaac)
brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples...
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